UbuStream Dynamic Source "mini-plugin" architecture for on-demand streams

[ubu]

I did some research, and my approach was to override your Read_HTML_Page and create a CookieContainer and attach to the webrequest. Then, before I start parsing stuff, I go to the webpage "Byt ljudformat" with the appropriate parameters for choosing realplayer. But I have no idea if this would work...

Exciting stuff! Best of luck! I took a quick look at the Cookie and CookieContainer and they looked like they might help (especially if sr.se cookies conform to the "official" cookie standards that .Net supports).

When you say "Cookies directory", which directory are you talking about, exactly?

Good question. I mainly use Firefox and I still don't know where it stores cookies. You can "browse" them but it doesn't tell you where they are. So I tried it with IE and found it does actually put them where they are supposed to be: C:\Documents and Settings\ubu\Cookies (if "ubu" was the current user logged on).

[stefan]

Yep... lunch break is over now, so I'll have to go back to my ordinary programming. Will continue at a later time, though Thank's for the input

[Remco]

For "my" DynSource Uitzendinggemist I also had to use cookies. I first wanted to clan up my code, before posting the source ; but i don't want to let you struggle if i can help you easily. I attached the source of my UitzendingGemistDynSource in which you can see how to use cookies (proxy.cs). I hope this helps

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[stefan]

Thank's I'll look at it in the morning. I think I got the idea right; my problem right now is to figure out the correct parameters to send to the correct url in order to set the cookie right

[stefan]

Update: I finally got it working. Stupid webserver demanded that I choose player by POST, not GET, that's why I couldn't get my cookies to stay in the CookieContainer Now I just need some time to clean up my code, and then after that we have Swedish National Radio running

Ubu: you said somewhere that I could use a schedule page, but that should be set for the entire dynSource, right? SR's schedule pages are one per siteItem... am I thinking wrong here?

[ubu]

Update: I finally got it working. Stupid webserver demanded that I choose player by POST, not GET, that's why I couldn't get my cookies to stay in the CookieContainer Now I just need some time to clean up my code, and then after that we have Swedish National Radio running

Hey, that's great news. Look forward to trying it out. I'm working on the new wiki page(s) for v2.0 (here, if you want a preview), and I'm thinking we need a separate page for downloading DynSource apps. We've already got apps from HTPCGB, Remco and, soon, from you, plus my three "sample" apps. This thing is gaining critical mass.

Ubu: you said somewhere that I could use a schedule page, but that should be set for the entire dynSource, right? SR's schedule pages are one per siteItem... am I thinking wrong here?

Each station can have a schedule page url (it's called Web Site URL on the station panel in the config app). So you can include the line:

Website1=<(optional) url of a web page containing schedule info>

for each item in your PLX file. (I forgot to update the spec in post#1 of this stream. Fixed now). I think this is a really useful feature now UbuStream displays the page using the new built-in web browser. Being able to use your remote butttons to scroll through the schedule makes it much more user-friendly than the way its used to work. I use it for a lot of my stations.

While you're at it, don't forget (if it's easy to do) to add the line:

Description1=<(optional) item description text>

Now that the Details button on the UbuStream menu is working, I'm getting so used to being able to scroll through the description in the pop-up Details box that I get kinda disappointed when the description is empty. It's especially useful for Dynamic Source stations where the user doesn't know what the heck got downloaded. It's nice to be able to read a description before you hit Play.

[stefan]

Ok... I haven't done anything since Friday (go figure), but I'd like to upload anyway (consider this a pre-beta ) No schedule page, no description as of yet. Plus, I have hardcoded a few strings that shouldn't be hardcoded, but as a proof of concept, this works. When I have cleaned things up I'll publish the source code, too.

[ubu]

Ok... I haven't done anything since Friday (go figure), but I'd like to upload anyway (consider this a pre-beta ) No schedule page, no description as of yet. Plus, I have hardcoded a few strings that shouldn't be hardcoded, but as a proof of concept, this works. When I have cleaned things up I'll publish the source code, too.

The zip contains a dll (SR.dll), whereas it needs to be an exe so UbuStream can execute it. Also, for UbuStream to recognise it as a mini-plugin, it needs to follow the naming standards, so I would expect something like SRDynSource.exe (or, since the first part gets used as the Dynamic Source's name, a more descriptive name might be SverigesRadioDynSource.exe).

[stefan]

Will fix

[stefan]

New zip attached.